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Updated Comic Releases for 9th January 2008

Date: Monday, January 7th 2008 3:44pm CST
Categories: Comic Book News, Company News
Posted by: i_amtrunks | Credit(s): IDW Publishing, diamondcomics.com

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Diamond Comics have updated their release schedule for the 9th of January 2008 with two IDW Publishing Transformers comics:
SEP073750 TRANSFORMERS BEAST WARS THE ASCENDING #4 and
NOV073626 TRANSFORMERS BEST OF UK DINOBOTS #5

Both comics will retail for US $3.99.

The Diamond Comics release schedule for the 16th of January 2008 shows that there will be no Transformers related releases for that week.

IDW Publishing have also updated their site, with the January 9th releases in their "This Weeks Titles" sidebar.

IDW Publishing going back to the very beginning?

Date: Wednesday, January 2nd 2008 4:20pm CST
Categories: Comic Book News, Rumors, Company News
Posted by: i_amtrunks | Credit(s): Grifter Prime, Simon Furman, Chris Ryall

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As we earlier reported here, Simon Furman has released some information about an upcoming series that he himself calls "epic".

It would seem as though more details have been leaked by none other than IDW Publishing Editor in Chief Chris Ryall; who has this to say in response to questions from Seibertron's own Grifter Prime:

Q: By the way, not really knowing that I might get an answer, but any BIG Transformer stories or news this year coming up?

A: Biiig things for the TFs this year, yeah, something no one knows about yet.

Q: The dead universe? Or is it the story that goes WAY back in the TF History?

A: Neither one, actually. Although we're also going to do the TF origins this year, too. That one will be called "The Thirteen."

Ryall also preceded to provide this link, which will take you to the "Swear Allegiance" teaser Image that we earlier reported here.

One could assume that the TF Origins series would be referring to the IDW Publishing version of the Original 13, but as yet it cannot yet be confirmed.

You can check out the original thread by clicking here, and don't forget you can discuss all things comics, IDW or otherwise in our Comics Thread.

Impossible Toys to release Nightbird

Date: Tuesday, January 1st 2008 9:42pm CST
Categories: Toy News, Company News, Collectables
Posted by: i_amtrunks | Credit(s): tfsource.com

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Impossible Toys have expanded their range from the Quintesson Toys they released in 2007, this time with some more G1 favourite characters that never received toys: Nightbird and the Quintesson Bailiff.

Nightbird



Price: $45.95 Each
Another great custom from Impossible Toys! Nightbird was the female ninja robot created by Mr. Fujiyama and enlisted by the Decepticons to steal the world energy source chip from Teletran 1. She was also the first female robot character to make an appearance in the G1 TV series! Never before seen, this custom figure is a great addition to your G1 collection!

Quintesson Bailiff



Price: $45.95 Each
Next up in line from Impossible Toys - Quint-05 - Quintesson Bailiff! Building on the popularity of the Quint-01 figure, a high attention to detail is paid on each of these custom figures. Picture is to come, actual figure will come in collectible display box and be of the same high quality material the Quint-01 Figure was made of.

Both figures come fully assembled and painted. Figures are available for pre-order now with shipping to start in Late February/Early March 2008.

For more information check out the pre-order pages for both Nightbird and Quintesson Bailiff.

Simon Furman drops hints on whats to come in 2008

Date: Tuesday, January 1st 2008 9:24pm CST
Categories: Comic Book News, People News, Company News
Posted by: i_amtrunks | Credit(s): Tazprime, Simon Furman

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Simon Furman has been busy over the New Year period, again updating his blog, revealing many little tidbits of information on what we already knew to be coming up in the year 2008.

First off from me, a trio of Spotlights: Blaster, Arcee and Grimlock. All feed into the main ‘ongoing’ storyline to greater or lesser extents, with all three characters having scores to settle or something to prove (or both). Arcee is perhaps the most pivotal, but Blaster has definite repercussions, as does Grimlock, which in and of itself leads into one of my main IDW/TF projects for 08.

Furman also hints at which direction the upcoming main books will be travelling:

And, of course, there’s Revelation itself, the fourth (fifth including Stormbringer) arc in the IDW/TF-verse, as the Dead Universe storyline that’s been bubbling under for a while now explodes into (un)life!

Add to that a hint of the upcoming summer story:

There’s also a series that goes back to a time before anything we’ve seen so far in the new IDW/TF-verse, one that will underpin the entire Infiltration/Escalation/Devastation/Revelation continuity.

and finally add to all the IDW Transformers work; Titan UK Transformers stories alongside other works such as Torchwood, Dr Who and TMNT stories and you have one busy writer.

To read Furman's full blog update, please click here, and to discuss all the upcoming IDW Transformers related work in this thread.